The Easiest Ways to Exercise & Stay Healthy While Traveling

Are you thinking of traveling this summer? Who doesn’t love a nice break! Perhaps even an adventure abroad.

Whether you are venturing stateside or journeying afar, use these tips to easily maintain your fitness and healthy lifestyle while traveling.

Tips to Fitness and Staying Healthy While Traveling

Stretch!

Have you heard of jet-lag? It’s a real thing. The good news is that there are ways to alleviate or even eliminate it. Stretching while traveling reduces the risk of blood clots and GI complications.

When traveling by car, take advantage of rest areas to breath in the fresh air, walk the paths or the parking lot and stretch out your legs, back and arms. Pack a cooler with fresh fruit and vegetables and bring plenty of water.

When flying, store belongings in the overhead compartment for more leg room and choose an aisle seat preferably in the first row behind an emergency exit for even more legroom. The window seat may offer good views but your body will thank you later for choosing the aisle.

Do leg and feet stretches at least once an hour. On long flights, set a goal to get up and walk up and down the aisles every hour. Do standing arm, neck and leg stretches in the space near the restrooms.

Skip the expensive food and bottled water costs. Bring an empty water bottle in your carry-on luggage. Fill with water after security. Pack sealed granola bars to snack on during the flight or layover. Check out this list of foods you can bring through airport security.

Be still. Take time each day to watch the sunrise or sit without an agenda.

Not only can these tips help you stay healthy while vacationing, just taking a trip is good for you. A Marshfield Clinic study found vacationing or partaking in a new adventure relieves tension, helps avoid depression and improves relationships. Plan your next trip today!